Archive for December 2012
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Protesters clashed with police in New Delhi during a demonstration Saturday sparked by the gang rape of a 23-year-old woman on a bus. The victim was in a critical condition in hospital. "We are afraid
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China's leading gold miner, Zijin Mining Group, sees output flat in 2013 after an expected rise of nearly 5 percent this year, as falling production at its top mine is offset by growth elsewhere, a
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Cotton spot prices in India rose on Monday on higher purchase by yarn makers and are likely to rise further over the next two weeks on expected intervention by the government to support prices, which
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Ukraine, which has urged traders to halt wheat exports, will allow them to ship abroad an additional 300,000 tonnes of wheat which they can buy from the state-run intervention fund, Agriculture Minister Mykola Prysyazhnyuk said
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Cotton eked out gains on Friday in very light volume ahead of the Christmas holiday, as mild speculative interest pulled prices up out of negative territory to retest recent highs. The most-active March cotton contract
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The Indian government has permitted a trade body to export 10,000 tonnes of sugar to the European Union in the year to September 2013, a government statement said on Wednesday. State-owned Indian Sugar Exim Corp
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China, the world's largest rubber consumer, will cut import taxes on two types of natural rubber products for 2013, the finance ministry announced on Monday, in a move that could spur imports. Import tariffs for
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China, the world's largest rubber consumer, will cut import taxes on two types of natural rubber products for 2013, the finance ministry announced on Monday, in a move that could spur imports. Import tariffs for
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Vietnamese rice inched up this week on fresh demand from China, but traders said firmer prices would not last as overall demand remains thin while supply elsewhere is rising. Vietnamese 5-percent broken rice edged up
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Some banks have tightened credit for imports of refined copper by China, the world's largest consumer of the metal, as stocks pile up in bonded warehouses and prices hover below London rates, reducing buying of
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